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This is so true. Somebody wrote, you're going to chase away the authors, you know.

We're losing a generation of incredible books because the writers are too tired to argue with an invisible feed.

If the entry feed of being a red author is mastering social media analytics,

we are gatekeeping literature based on the wrong skills.

Yeah.

So Sherry has books that she's written, which are excellent.

Thank you.

I have written books.

I have no interest in learning all the algorithmic tricks.

I don't either.

And they really lean on you to do that.

Yes, they do. Like, it's it and I get the wonderful publishers people I work with are incredible, but that is part of the business. I just can't I can't handle it. I cannot. I wanted to write that book. Like all that's nice those are two incredibly different skill sets. Not a lot of times. Most of the time, like getting into the back end of YouTube. All I most the time like getting into the back end of

youtube what i have to do is get to the back end of this thing and then change it i'm to do this and

then that it actually drains creativity like well then i forget it yeah forget it maybe i'll just

whine about it on a podcast well that's the beauty of what God has given us here, which I still marvel at.

Sometimes when I project myself back to you and Carolyn's patio with Radio Shack mics, right?

But the beauty of it is we at least have this space where we can kind of talk about it and talk about the book and kind of put it out there a little bit.

Yeah, right.

It's a tell for it.

Thank God we have that, right?

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